City of Chicago Auditing Personnel Records

The AP reports:

The city will audit the personnel records of more employees to ensure they were hired for their job qualifications instead of their political clout, a city official said Tuesday.

It is too early to say how many people will be audited, but some of them were named in court papers filed Monday by federal investigators looking into corruption at City Hall, said Ron Huberman, chief of staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Huberman also said that, effective immediately, the mayor's office won't permit any non-routine deletion of records from the city's mainframe or any city database.

Investigators said in court papers that Daley's former patronage chief, Robert Sorich, ordered files shredded and computer data deleted to keep the government from finding them.

Could corporate America get away with how Chicago hires people? Is a class action lawsuit coming?